Feasibility study of the transient electromagnetic method for chamber blasting misfire detection and recognition

In this paper,transient electromagnetic method was used to carry out the feasibility study on the detection and recognition of chamber blasting misfire.Firstly,an electromagnetic background field was established in the test;secondly,a benign conductor was preset in the chamber,and then the background field was eliminated after the electromagnetic field was measured;thirdly,the transient electromagnetic field was measured again after blasting;at last,the chamber blasting misfire was detected and recognized by comparing the change of eddy current field of the preset benign conductor before and after blasting.The test results showed that:When the buried depth of aluminum box target was no more than 30 m,transient electromagnetic method can clearly identify the position of the aluminum box;when the buried depth of aluminum box was more than30 m,the buried depth and position of the aluminum box was not sure due to the unknown level of secondary eddy current field generated by aluminum box.

Misfire identification of automobile engines based on wavelet packet and extreme learning machine

Due to non-stationary characteristics of the vibration signal acquired from cylinder head,a misfire fault diagnosis system of automobile engines based on correlation coefficient gained by wavelet packet and extreme learning machine(ELM)is proposed.Firstly,the original signal is decomposed by wavelet packet,and correlation coefficients between the reconstructed signal of each sub-band and the original signal as well as the energy entropy of each sample are obtained.Then,the eigenvectors established by the correlation coefficients method and the energy entropy method fused with kurtosis are inputted to the four kinds of classifiers including BP neural network,KNN classifier,support vector machine and ELM respectively for training and testing.Experimental results show that the method proposed in this paper can effectively reflect the differences that the fault produces and identify the single-cylinder misfire accurately,which has the advantages of higher accuracy and shorter training time.

Detection of engine misfire by wavelet analysis of cylinder-head vibration signals

The misfiring fault of internal combustion engine was detected by using the vibration signals of cylinder-head.Based on the data acquisition system built with LabVIEW,the cylinder-head vibration signals were detected with an accelerometer while the engine was rapidly accelerating from idle speed to high speed,at which time the engine was running under four working conditions of normal and single cylinder misfiring,double cylinders continuously misfiring and double cylinders alternately misfiring.After decomposing the vibration signals with db3 wavelet,whether the engine was misfiring or not,and what type of misfiring,were judged by comparing the decomposing results.The resultd showrf that,the low-frequency vibration of the engine cylinder head was related to the rotation of the principal shaft,and the high-frequency vibration was related to the combustion in the cylinder.There were certain corresponding relationships between wave crests of high-frequency vibration and wave crests of low-frequency under the four conditions of normal and faults when engine runs in idle segment,accelerating segment,and high-speed segment.Thus,the misfiring fault and type can be detected by analyzing the corresponding relations.Detection of the misfiring fault by using wavelet analysis was effective and feasible.

New Method for Building Vector of Diagnostic Signs to Classify Technical States of Marine Diesel Engine by Torsional Vibrations on Shaft-Line

Vector of diagnostic signs(VDS)using torsional vibration(TV)signal on the main propulsion plant(MPP)is the vector of z maxima(or minima)values of the TV signal in accordance with the cylinder firing orders.The technical states of the marine diesel engine(MDE)include R=z+1 classes and are presented in z-dimensional space coordinate of VDS.The presentation of Dk,k=1÷R using z diagnostic signs(Vi,i=1÷z)is nonfigurative and quite complicated.This paper aims to develop a new method for converting VDS from z-dimensional to 2-dimensional space(two-axes)based on the firing orders of the diesel cylinders,as an equivalent geometrical sign of the all diagnostic signs.The proposed model is useful for presenting a technical state Dk in two-dimensional space(x,y)for better visualization.The paper verifies the simulation of the classification illustration of the 7–state classes for the MDE 6S46-MCC,installed on the motor vessel(MV)34000DWT,using the new above mentioned method.The seven technical state classes(for 6-cylinder MDE,z=6)are drawn separately and visually in the Descartes.The received results are valuable to improve smart diagnostic system for analyzing normal/misfire states of cylinders in operation regimes.

An experimental study of a single-piston free piston linear generator

Free piston linear generator(FPLG)is a promising range extender for the electrical vehicle with unparallel advantages,such as compact structure,higher system efficiency,and reduced maintenance cost.However,due to the lack of the mechanic crankshaft,the related piston motion control is a challenge for the FPLG which causes problems such as misfire and crash and limits its widespread commercialization.Aimed at resolving the problems as misfire,a single-piston FPLG prototype has been designed and manufactured at Shanghai Jiao Tong University(SJTU).In this paper,the development process and experimental validation of the related control strategies were detailed.From the experimental studies,significant misfires were observed at first,while the FPLG operated in natural-aspiration conditions.The root cause of this misfire was then identified as the poor scavenging process,and a compressed air source was leveraged to enhance the related scavenging pressure.Afterward,optimal control parameters,in terms of scavenging pressure,air-fuel equivalence ratio,and ignition position,were then calibrated in this charged-scavenging condition.Eventually,the FPLG prototype has achieved a continuous stable operation of over 1000 cycles with an ignition rate of 100%and a cycle-to-cycle variation of less than 0.8%,produced an indicated power of 2.8 kW with an indicated thermal efficiency of 26%and an electrical power of 2.5 kW with an overall efficiency of 23.2%.